Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:48:38 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD a good choice for high performance webservers? Message-ID: <60164745040.20010926174838@buz.ch>
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Hello questions,
Ok, I know the subject is provoking, but it's absolutely intended
as the Makefile of the Apache 2 port states:
[... configure arguments...]
--disable-threads \
--with-mpm=preforked # Apache's thread doesn't work
well in FreeBSD
As far as I can tell, this means FreeBSD is going to be left behind
by
Linux in the not too distant future (i.e. when Apache 2 gets
released)
cause Linux for sure will work with the threaded MPMs which are
obviously faster than the preforked approach [1] in terms of real
world HTTP performance. I for myself would really LOVE to use the
perchild module to have each VHOST running under a different UID
(needs
lots of RAM but considering what possibilities this introduces[2],
I'm
very willing to go buy that RAM especially with the current RAM
prices)
for which the FreeBSD support looks pretty bad if threaded Apache
doesn't work...
So is this a temporary problem of the betas which will get fixed in
time for the release of Apache 2 or should I go get my hands on a
Debian
(which appears to be the only sane Linux distro) box?
Best regards,
Gabriel
[1] (renowned Stevens unfortunately didn't manage to get threaded
servers working on BSD/OS so I have no real benchmarks to back this
up but Solaris and Digital Unix were both significantly better
performing with threads than with preforked servers)
[2] setuid PHP module: No more worries about users stealing each
others their DB passwords etc pp. Yeah. (this obviously requires that
PHP will work with threaded servers...)
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